A bust of Aristotle. (Image courtesy of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Stephen Yablo
MIT Course Number
24.03
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow equally good? Is science getting closer to the truth? Is rationality--the notion of a good reason to believe something--relative to cultural norms? What are selves? Is there a coherent form of relativism about the self? Guided by the writings of Thomas Kuhn, Gilbert Harman, Judith Thomson, John Perry and Derek Parfit, we attempt to make these vague questions precise, and we make a start at answering them.
